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Team Romney has launched a new micro-site today that shows the progression of Al Gore’s push for job-killing climate change legislation. When Al needed support, he went to Nancy; when Nancy wasn’t enough, he went to Newt. And Newt, the unreliable leader that he is, hopped on board.

If anyone is wondering about Gov. Romney positions (since soundbytes usually don’t tell the whole story), remember you can check out the research we’ve done on the issues. Not everyone has time to read Mitt’s book No Apology, but if you do, I highly recommend it. After seeing the amount of detail Gov. Romney puts into his answers, you’ll wonder how so many people get so much about Gov. Romney wrong.

Gov. Romney Confirms His Participation in the June 13th, New Hampshire Presidential Debate!

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, businessman Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will participate in the June 13 debate on the campus of St. Anselm College.

Giuliani, Palin, and Huntsman all declined invitations to the debate. The debate will air live from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET in New Hampshire and you can bet we’ll be watching the debate live and chatting here at MRC.

Here we go again. Rather than providing much needed leadership on the oil spill crisis, President Obama and the liberals in Congress instead are trying to use it as an excuse to push through a cap and trade program — yet another big government initiative that will do nothing to stem the millions of gallons of oil spilling into the ocean, and which will have a negative impact on hard-working American families and the economy as a whole.

As Governor of Massachusetts, I declined to sign onto a regional cap and trade program because of my concern that it will raise energy prices for businesses and families. Unfortunately, my Democratic successor joined that agreement, known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), and the result has been higher electricity prices for everyone, despite claims from advocates who said energy bills will go down.

Cap and trade effectively constitutes an enormous, hidden tax on the American people and American businesses. It will lead to higher joblessness and make a bad economic situation even worse. And because it will simply move greenhouse gas emitters from America to other nations like China, it won’t do a thing to affect climate change.

At a time when we need leaders who will focus on solving the problems facing this nation today — stopping the oil spill, strengthening our economy, and creating an environment in which job creation can thrive — we instead have leaders more interested in growing government. Whether it’s cap and trade, a costly stimulus bill, auto company bailouts, job-killing card check legislation, or a health care law that imposes higher taxes, President Obama and the liberals controlling Congress have come down on the side of big government over and over again.

It is time that we make our voices heard and say enough is enough. I hope you will stand with me in doing so today.

(emphasis mine)

Following Rahm Emanuel’s ‘never let a serious crisis go to waste’ dictum, calculating President Obama must have figured enough time has lapsed since the explosion of BP’s oil rig and enough damage done to the Gulf area that he has a reasonable chance to muster a victory on his Cap and Trade Tax plans. (The day after the meeting Obama finally accepted foreign aid to help with oil spill cleanup – day 71 if you’re counting. Coincidence?)

Readout of the President’s Meeting with a Bipartisan Group of Senators to Discuss Passing Comprehensive Energy and Climate Legislation

The meeting the President hosted with a bipartisan group of Senators was a constructive exchange about the need to pass energy and climate legislation this year that lasted more than an hour-and-a-half. The President made clear his view that a full transition to clean energy will require more than just the government action we’ve taken so far. It will require a national effort from all of us to change the way we produce and use energy. The President told the Senators that he still believes the best way for us to transition to a clean energy economy is with a bill that makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America’s businesses by putting a price on pollution – because when companies pollute, they should be responsible for the costs to the environment and their contribution to climate change. Not all of the Senators agreed with this approach, and the President welcomed other approaches and ideas that would take real steps to reduce our dependence on oil, create jobs, strengthen our national security and reduce the pollution in our atmosphere. The President said that there was a strong foundation and consensus on some key policies and the President urged the Senators to come together based on that foundation. There was agreement on the sense of urgency required to move forward with legislation and the President is confident that we will be able to get something done this year.

(emphasis mine)

Strange words coming from Obama when back in August 2009 he quietly committed to lend $2,000,000,000 (that’s TWO BILLION dollars) of our money to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to help them with off-shore deep water drilling in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. By the way, a few days before Obama committed to loan money to Brazil, guess who readjusted himself within Petrobas to receive dividends? George Soros.

In the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama today summoned a bipartisan group of over 20 senators to the White House to push for energy and climate change legislation.

But one thing the President did not want to talk about at the meeting was the BP disaster, a Republican source told ABC News. And that, the source said, led to a pointed exchange with GOP senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee.

“The priority should be fixing the oil spill,” Alexander told the President, according to the source. “That’s what any meeting about energy should be about.”

But when Alexander tried to interject the BP leak into the meeting, the source said, the President told the senator, “That’s just your talking point.”

After the knock-out senatorial election of Scott Brown (R-MA), President Obama blatantly declared, “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.” Obama’s 71-minute State of the Union speech to the nation last night signaled he’s ignoring Massachusetts’ cold-water-in-the-face message. He’s quickly toweled off and plans to keep slugging. With an overall combative tone, peppered with patronization and huge doses of hypocrisy, here are just a few jabs from last night’s speech:

“We have the largest majority in decades and people expect us to solve problems, not run for the hills.” (Obama warns Democrats to stay in the ring with him. 78% of Americans believe the Democrat super-majority loss is a positive for America. 22% feel it is a negative for America.)

“Let’s try common sense. Let’s invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let’s meet our responsibility to the people who sent us here.” (Obama’s policies have put us on a road that will triple our national debt to $22 trillion over the next ten years. The fiscal policies of the United States are unsustainable.)

“And what the American people hope — what they deserve — is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences, to overcome the numbing weight of our politics… Just saying ‘no’ to everything may be good short term politics but it’s not leadership.” (Capitol Hill doors have been locked – figuratively and in actuality – to prevent policy negotiations with Republicans. Update: House Republican Leader John Boehner (OH-8) said today that it had been over a year since he has been contacted by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel or anyone in the Obama administration.)

“One year ago, I took office amid two wars, an economy rocked by a severe recession, financial system on the verge of collapse and a government deeply in debt. Experts from across the political spectrum warned that if we did not act, we might face a second depression. So we acted — immediately and aggressively. And one year later, the worst of the storm has passed.” (Of Obama’s controversial $787 billion Stimulus Bill, only $264 billion has been spent. That leaves $523 billion more for Obama’s pay-backs and pet projects. He promised us that passing the Stimulus Bill would hold unemployment at 8%. It’s now over 10%. The Labor Dept reports today that for the week ending Jan. 23, another 470,000 Americans filed for unemployment benefits. UPDATE: Dr. Frank Luntz conducted a poll today among an equal number of Republicans and Democrats in Philadelphia, PA. This statement polled as the WORST MOMENT in Obama’s speech.)

“…I’ve proposed a fee on the biggest banks. Now, I know Wall Street isn’t keen on this idea. But if these firms can afford to hand out big bonuses again, they can afford a modest fee to pay back the taxpayers who rescued them in their time of need.” (TARP funds prevented our entire financial system from collapsing. Obama wants banks who have paid back TARP money – with interest – to now pay a fee. Obama ignores the federal government’s part in contributing to our economic crisis and is deflecting from the bonuses his own administration allowed.)

“You see, Washington has been telling us to wait for decades, even as the problems have grown worse. Meanwhile, China is not waiting to revamp its economy.” (Of course China isn’t waiting. They own us! Just a couple of months into Obama’s presidency, the Chinese were expressing concerns over his penchant for trillion dollar borrowing from them. U.S. taxpayers pay the Chinese government $50 billion per year on interest – alone.)

“Still, this is a complex issue [health care], and the longer it was debated, the more skeptical people became. I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people.” (Does Obama really believe 61% of Americans want him to move off the health care issue and focus on job creation because he didn’t explain it well enough? 81% of Americans believe Obamacare will raise taxes.)

“Let’s put aside the schoolyard taunts about who is tough. Let’s reject the false choice between protecting our people and upholding our values.” (Obama foreign policy gobbledy gook. The Commander-in-Chief conveniently forgot to mention his policy of giving U.S. constitutional rights to terrorists and trials in U.S. courts.)

“And, yes, it [clean energy] means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America. I know there have been questions about whether we can afford such changes in a tough economy. I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.” (Obama is willing to cripple our economy further by refusing to even consider real science and the scandalous suppressing of evidence regarding climate change. Cap-and-Trade legislation isn’t global warming/climate change. It’s about creating profit – money out of thin air.)

A jaw-dropping breach of decorum occurred last night when Obama scolded the Supreme Court regarding the reversal of the McCain-Feingold bill. Watch Justice Alito mouth “that’s not true”:

Like us, Harry Reid has heard it all before:

Governor Bob McDonnell’s (R-VA) response to Obama’s State of the Union Speech:

Obama’s condescension and arrogance doesn’t bode well for 2010. The President’s hoped-for left hook last night may cost him seats in the mid-term elections. Will Blue Dog Democrats go to the ropes for him? We’ll see.

Obama may have bloodied our noses this past year, but I feel a whopping right-hook coming on. The American people refuse to be his punching bag any longer.

Read full text of Governor Bob McDonnell’s (R-WA) rebuttal speech here.
Read full text of President Obama’s State of the Union Speech here.

“Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.

Temperatures will stay low at least the next three days,” Henning Gisseloe, an official at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute, said today by telephone, forecasting more snow in coming days. “There’s a good chance of a white Christmas.”

Denmark has a maritime climate and milder winters than its Scandinavian neighbors. It hasn’t had a white Christmas for 14 years, under the DMI’s definition, and only had seven last century. Temperatures today fell as low as minus 4 Celsius (25 Fahrenheit).

DMI defines a white Christmas as 90 percent of the country being covered by at least 2 centimeters of snow on the afternoon of Dec. 24.

Even more ironic, just a few hours before the storm roared in, Hillary Clinton, in an effort to put a smiley face on the poorly organized, chaotic Climate Conference, offered the following:

Climate change threatens not only our environment, but our economy and our security. This is an undeniable and unforgiving fact.

The only undeniable and unforgiving fact is that the only thing heating up is tempers among global warming proponents:

Tim Pawlenty yesterday became the first potential 2012 GOP candidate to visit the first-in-the-nation primary state (unless you count Haley Barbour’s visit last summer). But Mitt Romney wins the “all-important” Christmas card race. His card, with two color photos of his huge family, hit mailboxes yesterday.

I’d love to have a Romney family Christmas card delivered to me! Speaking of deliver, the singers on our Fifth Day of Christmas video, do just that. Here’s Celtic Woman singing Carol of the Bells:

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, the flying cloud, the frosty light;
Ring in the love of truth and right, ring in the common love of good.

Ring in the valiant man and free, the larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land, ring in the Christ that is to be.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

On November 20th of this year (day of Global Warming infamy) scientists’ emails stored on a computer network at Hadley Climate Research revealed the junk science of doomsday climate change. Curiosity was immediately raised on the effect these revelations would have on the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Change Summit (COP-15) and more particularly, the position to be taken by President Obama and global-warming-guru Al Gore.

Overnight, climate warming became Climategate. Discussions on the manipulation of evidence and massive cover-up involved with global warming became front-page news. Prior to the scandal, Al Gore was scheduled to attend COP-15, but post-scandal Gore cancelled his Copenhagen appearance. Obama was also slated to attend, but changed his mind. Subsequently, and not surprisingly, on December 7th, the two of them met in the Oval Office. When they emerged, it was announced that Obama would go to Copenhagen. He held a press conference to declare that U.S. carbon emissions reductions would be on the table – in the range of 17% below 2005 levels. Although we hoped that, at the very least, our president would acknowledge that global warming data had been compromised, we now knew the direction he was headed. But, what of Gore?

This week, the “mystery of Al” was answered. As ministers of the world’s countries began to arrive in Copenhagen for the final week of nitty-gritty negotiations, Mr. Gore magically appeared at a Climategate pulpit on Monday, December 14th, to protect his turf. Making an astounding new claim, he announced that new computer modeling shows that polar ice may be entirely melted by summer 2014. Gore elaborated:

“These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years. It is hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science of ice felt when they saw this”

Here’s a question being bandied about: Is there room in the Grand Old Party for “Sam’s Club” Republicans AND “Whole Foods” Republicans? Should “conservative lifestyle/conservative politics” folks join hands with “progressive lifestyle/conservative politics” Americans? Read one man’s opinion here.

Iran – a topic of twists, turns, and angst. We learn today documentation exists proving that four years after Iran was believed to have abandoned its weapons program, they launched an aggressive effort to test a key component of nuclear weaponry that triggers the most important part of the process – the explosion. It’s called a neutron initiator.

The technical document describes the use of a neutron source, uranium deuteride, which independent experts confirm has no possible civilian or military use other than in a nuclear weapon. Uranium deuteride is the material used in Pakistan’s bomb, from where Iran obtained its blueprint.

“Although Iran might claim that this work is for civil purposes, there is no civil application,” said David Albright, a physicist and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, which has analysed hundreds of pages of documents related to the Iranian programme. “This is a very strong indicator of weapons work.”

Now, to those in Copenhagen who can’t cope… Why? Because 135 developing nations are in a tizzy have brought negotiations to a halt because their extortion demands for more money to atone for allegedly heating up the globe aren’t being met alleged fat-cat countries haven’t agreed to reduce enough supposed greenhouse emissions to satisfy them. But, never fear, Obama has promised to distribute sun-powered lanterns and ozone-friendly appliances to the world’s poor nations.

Whatever else be lost among the years, let us keep Christmas still a shining thing. Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, let us hold close one day, remembering its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. ~ Grace Noll Crowell

Remember back in 1997 when the U.S. Senate rejected the Kyoto protocol and then, at the end of his term, Bill Clinton signed an executive order placing America under Kyoto’s restrictions? Do you also recall that when then-President George Bush was elected, he refused to buckle to pressures to ratify the Kyoto Agreement? Bush refused to sign mainly because of faulty global warming science and the adverse effects strict carbon emission guidelines reductions would have had on our American economy. Now, the epic global climate argument will come to a dramatic head December 7-18, 2009. Representatives from 192 countries, with estimates of more than 15,000 diplomats, officials, advisers, proponents, and journalists, will cluster in Copenhagen, Denmark, to attend COP-15 (Copenhagen Climate Change Summit – 15th annual conference). Is Obama poised to cede U.S. sovereignty to the United Nations on climate change?

Obama clues and cues:

1) Stance on Cap and Trade

2) Refusal to pursue development of America’s off-shore/ANWR oil resources

3) Desire to eradicate the coal industry

4) Billions of dollars earmarked to create ‘green’ energy

5) American Apologetics message to the world and propensity for transnationalism, i.e. the appointment of Harold Koh as the State Department’s top legal advisor.

6) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statements at Obama’s Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate last March, acknowledging that the U.S. had played a role in past climate emissions. She emphasized that America is “determined to make up for lost time both at home and abroad” and that “the U.S. is no longer absent without leave.”

It doesn’t take a solar-powered crystal ball to determine the position Obama will take at COP-15 this December!

Please watch every minute of this important video Climate Chains – The Global Warming Fraud:

“Energy is what many call the Master Resource. If you control energy, you control everything. Everything we make, use, or do starts with an infusion of energy and requires energy at every step along the way… to the point where you use it.” “Climate change is the perfect scapegoat for environmentalists. A COP-15 Treaty will be used to change the behavior, lifestyle, and standard of living of every single person on the planet.”

Mitt Romney on Cap & Trade – Free and Strong America, Oct 7, 2009
Romney: “President Obama has asked Congress to pass a Cap and Trade program. It will have a devastating impact on families of America and the economy. The plan would raise energy prices on the average American family by $1,761 a year. I hope you’ll join me in opposing this legislation. Together, we need to make our voices heard!”

Monckton served as a policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher. He has repeatedly challenged Al Gore to a debate to which Gore has refused. Monckton sued to stop Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” from being shown in British schools due to its inaccuracies. The judge found in-favor of Monckton, ordering 9 serious errors in the film to be corrected. Lord Monckton travels internationally in an attempt to educating the public about the myth of global warming.

On October 14, 2009, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change skeptic, gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN. In this 4-minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty, scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.

WARNING!
Lord Monckton on United Nations Treaty to be signed December 2009: “I have read that treaty. What is says is this: 1) A world government is going to be created. 2) Transfer of wealth from countries of the west to third world countries to satisfy ‘climate debt.’ 3) Enforcement.”

This isn’t about the climate. It’s about international economic control over our lives. As Monckton said, in the next few weeks – UNLESS WE STOP IT – our President will sign our freedom, our democracy, and our prosperity away forever. I urge you to pass this information to your friends and neighbors. We ALL must contact our legislators and every form of media to STOP OBAMA from signing the COP-15 Climate Change Treaty.

Barack Obama chastised the United States (again) and apologized (again) to the UN General Assembly for the US being the leader of the world. Which comes as no surprise whatsoever. After all, Barack Obama sees America as an imperialistic war-mongering, slavery burdened bully. The same way all Marxist thugs see it, which is why Castro, Ghadafi, Chavez and all the others shower praise upon the crowned prince, Obama. (“We are content and happy if Obama can stay forever as American president”) So really, speech #68 in the Obama Apology World Tour is not exactly news is it?

Meanwhile climate change, the greatest hoax in American history (other than Obama himself), continues to be the focus of his apologetic sorry-mongering.

However, the legitimacy of global warming is irrelevant to what is really at the heart of the argument. The President has no intention of reducing “carbon pollution” or curbing rising temperatures. Those things do not exist. They are simply a means to an end. In fact, the world is not warming, and there is not imminent catastrophe awaiting us 4 months, 4 years, or 10 years down the road. The very fact that these alarmists cannot even agree on the date for our demise should raise red flags in the realms of common sense and logical thought. Are we so arrogant as to think that 100 years of industrial activity is bringing an abrupt end to a planet that has survived and thrived for billions of years?

And disregard the fact that the same people crowing about climate change today are the same people who claimed the coming of an imminent demise, brought about by mass freezing and over-population as recently as the 1970s. They were spectacularly wrong. If there is a credibility shortfall in the climate change argument, the prophets of the movement need not look any further than their own publications as to why that shortfall exists.

However, saving the planet is cover for controlling the masses.

An intrusive government has always sought to control its citizens. Whether the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Castro’s Cuba or modern-day Venezuela, the end is the same: government control. And today the United States is following along that road, using “climate change” as the vehicle for “progress”. That, along with health care reform, soda and cigarette taxes, cash for clunkers (you must, after all, drive the proper kind of car) and a host of other social justice and global salvatory regulations that are meaningless and ridiculous. And when those vehicles stall, then blatant thuggery fills the gap. Just ask Humana.

Steven Chu, the president’s energy secretary showed his hand recently when he, speaking about climate change, declared that the “American public … just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act. The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.”

And who better than to teach us the error of our ways, to tell us how to act, than Barack Obama. The Simba to Ted Kennedy’s Mufasa. The intellectual golden tongued phenomenon. The One. Who are we to question the wisdom of this Harvard educated, international superstar? We are but witless subjects standing helpless and hapless, barefoot and disheveled with a dirty hand outstretched and begging “please sir, may I have some more?”

To oppose him is to foster racism and hate and irrational, dim-witted fallacy. To oppose Barack Obama is akin to murder and genocide. The very essence of hate-speech is to question our Dear Leader. An offense that ought to be punishable with a public stoning.

But I digress. Slightly.

What exactly is the president up to? He declared with impunity his intention to “fundamentally transform the United States”. Transform into what?

His history and his associations give us a clue. As a community organizer his job was to agitate and to create a climate of crisis. To, as has been the stated goals of his mentors, flood the welfare rolls creating so much dependency that they collapse the capitalistic system in the United States.

As always, the enemy for the left is capitalism.

In the end the line in the sand is drawn between climate change (and all that goes with it) and capitalism. As the sanctimonious, and asinine “The Story of Stuff” demonstrates, our social and environmental ills all stem from capitalistic failure, selfish profiteering and the all encompassing, universal evil of consumption.

And that is the new American debate.

Are we willing to forgo a system of economic and social liberty that has given rise to the greatest nation in the history of the Earth for a nanny-state mediocrity ruled by anointed intellectuals who have never, at any point in the morality tales of their lives held a normal, private sector job? Do any “Progressives” know where money comes from? Or is it simply enough, within the social circles of Washington and New York City to demean and condemn the existence, creation, and gathering of money? All while attending a party at a city high rise, smugly sipping expensive drinks and eating imported caviar.

Our president believes that economic and personal freedom is unjust and unfair. The disparity in results which arise from human effort, ingenuity and luck are a disease and plague that have created a nation of selfish, petty, hateful white males. His entire life has been spent agitating people to act on this fallacy, this lie. It ought to come as no surprise that this is the narrative that is emerging from his fledgling presidency.

The fundamental transformation Barack Obama spoke of is the calculated demise of capitalism and American prosperity.

As President Barack Obama pushes for a national cap-and-trade system, results are starting to come in from the nation’s first mandatory program to limit carbon emissions and they foreshadow higher electricity prices for all.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), got under way on Jan. 1 and covers power plant operators in Massachusetts and nine other Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States. RGGI caps carbon emissions at current levels through 2014, and then reduces them 10 percent by 2018.

At the center of it is the concept of selling to power plants the right to discharge CO2 into the air, something they previously did for free, turning it into a lucrative revenue source for government.

The “cost to pollute” is expressed as the price to emit a ton of carbon. The first auction of permits was held last September, when the price was set at $3.07 per ton, more than 50 percent higher than the $2 predicted by the University of New Hampshire.

The price increased to $3.38 in a second auction in December. It went up to $3.51 in a third auction in March.

Through this nifty scheme, states so far have pocketed $262 million from the power-producing sector, which can only come from one place: electricity users. Auctions are held quarterly, and the per-ton price will rise as the carbon caps are lowered over time and speculators get in on the game.
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